In the same city on the same night. But you know it will end in loss.
As a child, Isabelle Ronaldo has her nose in a book, her fingers on a piano, and never tames her wild hair. In her backyard sitting by the pool, with Brazilian jasmine perfuming the air, she meets Frank-and they become best friends.
Imagining her future with no office, no desk, just the intimacy of the rivers in Europe-Isabelle works hard to become Spectrum's first female riverboat captain. Frank always looks like he has it together, but he does not. Restless and reckless, he recruits Lydia into something illegal-and when Isabelle discovers what he is doing, it slowly unravels the friendship she believes is unbreakable.
Isabelle, Frank, and Lydia arrive in Strasbourg, dressed for a glittering evening at the Valentine's ball. Tracey Lauch is also in town-but he is drawn to its Gothic cathedral and to Mimi, a woman taken in by his charm, unaware of the evil beneath it.
Their lives converge, and nothing unfolds the way Frank-or Tracey-expects.
Death in a Dark Alley is about a friendship fracturing, a dangerous man's actions-and the helplessness you feel watching both come apart.